For more information on these events,contact the: International Working Women’s Day
Coalition at wfnetworkny@gmail.com

Women in the U.S. will continue to be in the forefront of many battles —
opposing U.S. wars and occupations while demanding funding for human needs,
defending collective bargaining in their unions, demanding wages that allow
their families to keep up with the cost of living, stopping foreclosures so
they can stay in their homes, demanding contraceptives and other free
preventive health care, and fighting for basic rights to affordable education,
quality health care and housing, and good-paying jobs. Women in public sector
jobs — who are a majority women of color — are coming under heavy
fire now as they defend their right to belong to unions. And they are rising to
the challenge. Immigrant women are blazing ahead despite obstacles and
organizing new unions for domestic workers. On International Working
Women’s Day 2013, we remember the women garment workers in New York City
who marched for better working and living conditions on March 8, 1908, and the
socialist women who founded IWWD in 1910 in their honor.